That's great nes on the RC1 stuff! With all of the JIRA notifications and a lot of the good ideas that are being transfered over to Apache/put to pasture because lack of resources and interest, I wonder if it's about time to discuss a roadmap of features/methodologies/concepts/goals for future releases.
Also what medium that discussion should take place in. (personally think the mailing list is a bit restrictive for the kinds of broader discussions that would be taking place, JIRA with subtasks seems more appropriate but would like feedback)
